We recorded it at ABC Studios, which for the most part is a practice space. Bert is from El Segundo and Erik is from Venice so they are basically L.A. I was born in Arkansas and grew up in Missouri. Was this a tough album to make? At times, you cross into a “heavy metal” sound but at the end of the day there’s a “pop” sensibility… How did the recording process work? Who produced it?
Tooley…Īre you a native of Los Angeles? Where are Bert and Eric from? I’ve listened to your newly released album and I think it’s really good. The “trinity” of MIND MELD is made of Bert Hoover on guitar, Erik Lake on bass and Ms. Their music is less a conduit to the past and more of a thorough fare for the future. In an increasingly atomized world MIND MELD is a passport, a kindred connection that you can have with people on the other side of the planet of sorts.
They produce a ‘heavy’ metallic ambiance that contradicts the sing-song filigree of most Los Angeles rock bands. They emphasize the cryptic margins of “avant-rock” by incorporating evanescent textures over an immutable baseline. Their antecedents are Hawkwind, Blue Cheer,Velvet Underground and yes even Black Sabbath. MIND MELD is a mindset as much at it is a sound… its a transcendent state of mind. When listening to their new self-titled album they go beyond the “lazy catch-all” term of Psyche rock by not playing within the rule book and going deep inside their heads. This return to splendor is what makes Mind Meld so much more compelling.
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Even with all the music software that’s available MIND MELD opts to manipulate their sound via plugins so to make recordings sound like old tapes, broken tubes, crackling amps, old plate reverb and so on. It’s funny how modern technology tries to create something that sounds old. Their music has the aura of the era gone past when music was analog. “Retromania” is the rife of western society and it can be detected so effortlessly by local L.A.
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